The last time my wife and I played the Powerball, we matched three numbers and the powerball. I should note that this is the last time the Jackpot was remotely this big. The odds of even getting what we got was 1 in 12,500 or so. While I know that to match one or two more numbers would have required vastly greater odds, I sometimes think about how I was two numbers away from being set for life.

im gonna put $20 down i guess. if i won, i'd just get really weird for a while. i don't think i could mentally handle being ultra wealthy. i'd do strange things like pay my friends to fist fight each other

Letang Is The Truth wrote:Do bummed that I got suckered in to buying a ticket. I just didn't want everyone that works for me to win then quit so I needed to hedge my bet a little

Years ago, back when I was the CIO for Lenders Service (up in RIDC West), I had a rule for the programmers and operations people that worked for me, if they pooled their money and played as a group, they had to include me. No way was I going to be the only one left behind when there was a mass resignation.

Froggy wrote:im gonna put $20 down i guess. if i won, i'd just get really weird for a while. i don't think i could mentally handle being ultra wealthy. i'd do strange things like pay my friends to fist fight each other

Yeah. Its funny 500 million is a crap ton of money but it kinda doesn't even close to people like the koch brother's 50 billion

Froggy wrote:im gonna put $20 down i guess. if i won, i'd just get really weird for a while. i don't think i could mentally handle being ultra wealthy. i'd do strange things like pay my friends to fist fight each other

Yeah. Its funny 500 million is a crap ton of money but it kinda doesn't even close to people like the koch brother's 50 billion